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Carefully exposing children to more misinformation can make them better fact-checkers, study suggests

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In an era when online misinformation is seemingly everywhere and objective facts are often in dispute, UC Berkeley psychologists in a new study have presented a somewhat paradoxical partial solution: Expose young children to more misinformation online—not less. Doing so in limited circumstances, and with careful oversight and education, can help […]